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Generation of Parametric Human Body Segment Models Using Korean Anthropometric Data  

Koo, Bon-Yeol (한양대학교 기계공학부)
Choi, Myeong-Hwan (한양대학교 기계공학부)
Chae, Je-Wook (국방과학 기술연구소)
Kim, Jay-Jung (한양대학교 기계공학부)
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Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering / v.16, no.6, 2011 , pp. 424-436 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a methodology of generating a parametric segment model for human body using the Korean anthropometric data. The model is defined as an articulated body model consisted with 19 ellipsoid primitives. The primitives are joined at locations representing the physical joints of human body. A lot of previous researches have suggested methodologies of generating body models using the European or American anthropometric data, so that these models were inappropriate for engineering analyses and simulations in case of the Koreans. We defined a set of 35 body dimensions representing our segment model based on the anthropometric data of Koreans. Also we defined four key parameters of age, height, weight and waist circumference, and then we applied regression equations to associate the parameters to the aforementioned dimensions. As the results, we obtained the parametric human body segment models according to the various body types and the subject-specific models for a specific individual. The models in the various industries can be used as the base models for static and dynamic analysis considering the Koreans.
Keywords
Anthropometric data; Articulated human body model; Human body model; Human body segment model;
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